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Amit V Masurkar is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He directed the independent comedy film Sulemani Keeda. His second feature film, Newton was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. He also won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Screenplay for this film.
- Why Newton?
- What Has Been The reaction?
- What Is His Film background?
- Does He Make Political Films?
- How Did He Prepare For It?
Why call it Newton? It was the first question we asked Masurkar in January on hearing about his sophomore film having its world première in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival. It came to him through a Facebook friend request from a small town guy called Newton Mishra, he told us in an interview at the production house Drish...
Since that first conversation Newton has become a buzzword of sorts, not just amassing critical acclaim but running to packed houses, shocking for the film’s independent than mainstream cinema spirit. Starting off as the underdog it beat the other heavyweight releases of the week — Bhoomi and Haseena Parker — at their own box office game. The inter...
With Newton, its 36-year-old director too has come a long way. Growing up in a middle class family in Mumbai’s Mahim suburb, Masurkar attended DG Ruparel College and went on to pursue engineering before dropping out. The big break came as the staff writer of the TV show, The Great Indian Comedy Show . Odd jobs in films kept coming. Having written m...
With Newton, which he described to us as “dramedy with dry and observational humour,” Masurkar has gone into an alien, unseen space, rife with politics and violence. It is a highly political film but one which doesn’t deal with any leader, party or ideology. It came to him while reading the Preamble to the Indian Constitution. “It gives you goose f...
It required him to read a lot, travel, do on-ground research. He, along with co-writer Mayank Tewari, met activists, officers, lawyers and voters. Newton was shot in 37 days in and around Dalli Rajhara, a cosmopolitan mining township of the Bhilai Steel Plant, surrounded by tribal villages on the outskirts. Though the lead roles are played by well-...
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Jun 23, 2021 · Amit Masurkar was 20 when he quit engineering midway to pursue a career in films, and 32 when he made his first, Sulemani Keeda, a truly indie slacker film about two struggling screenwriters in Versova.
Amit Masurkar is known for Newton (2017), Sherni (2021) and Sulemani Keeda (2014).
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The real deal: Director Amit Masurkar’s journey from Newton to Sherni - Hindustan Times. By Karishma Upadhyay. Jun 25, 2021 05:53 PM IST. How does one get a film to look so authentic? In...
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Newton director Amit V. Masurkar, whose movie has been selected as India’s official entry to the Oscars, says he always wanted to explore a story in a political space which is otherwise lesser...
